First Person(2000)
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First Air Date: 2000-02-16
Average Runtime: N/A
Rating: 8.3
Votes: 3
Seasons: 2
Episodes: 19
First Person was an American TV series produced and directed by Errol Morris. The show engaged a varied group of individuals from civil advocates to criminals. Interviews were conducted with "The Interrotron", a device similar to a teleprompter: Errol and his subject each sit facing a camera. The image of each person's face is then projected onto a two-way mirror positioned in front of the lens of the other's camera. Instead of looking at a blank lens, then, both Morris and his subject are looking directly at a human face. Morris believes that the machine encourages monologue in the interview process, while also encouraging the interviewees to "express themselves to camera".
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 11E01
Mr. Debt
Air Date: 2000-02-16
Andrew Capoccia is fighting in his own personal crusade against credit card companies. He is a lawyer that helps peo...
E02
Eyeball to Eyeball
Air Date: 2000-02-23
Clyde Roper has dedicated his life to become the first person to see a giant squid. He started off as a lobster fish...
E03
Stairway to Heaven
Air Date: 2000-03-01
A conversation with Temple Grandin. She is a university professor, a diagnosed autistic, and has designed 1/3 of th...
E04
The Killer Inside Me
Air Date: 2000-03-08
A conversation with Sondra London. Her high school boyfriend was Gerald Shaefer, the same man that later became one ...
E05
I Dismember Mama
Air Date: 2000-03-15
A conversation with Saul Kent. He is one of the pioneers in the field of cryonics, that being the freezing of persons...
E06
The Stalker
Air Date: 2000-03-22
An interview with Bill Kinsley. He was once a promising post office worker on the brink of promotion to postmaster ge...
E07
The Parrot
Air Date: 2000-03-29
This documentary is about an unusual murder mystery. Jane Gill is found murdered in her bedroom. Next to the body the...
E08
Smiling in a Jar
Air Date: 2000-04-05
An interview with Gretchen Worden. She is the director of Mütter Museum in Philadelphia. Here exists a unique collect...
E09
In the Kingdom of the Unabomber
Air Date: 2000-04-12
Gay Greenberg was a psychotherapist that wanted to become a writer. His career as a writer lead to nowhere, and he de...
E10
The Little Gray Man
Air Date: 2000-04-19
For 25 years Antonio Mendez worked as a secret agent for the CIA. He led two lives. To his friends he was a bureaucra...
E11
You're Soaking In It
Air Date: 2000-05-01
After Joan Dougherty's son's shotgun suicide, she was left alone with a gruesome mess. Having no other choice, she st...
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